This is a place for me to record our everyday happens and my thoughts as I go about being a wife to my dearest and a mother to our beautiful 9 children. I'm thankful to be a daughter of God and I desire to serve and bring Him glory in all I do and say.

Menu

Memories From Europe – Part 2

Today’s walk is a continuation of last week’s walk. I will probably need to do two more weeks to finish up this trip too. Hard to condense 3 weeks of seeing so many places in one day.

May 2005

After we left the lovely Pension in the Black Forest, we headed to Switzerland. We really didn’t have a destination in mind, but we wanted to see Switzerland! So off we went… We decided to head to Lugano to see and experience Palm trees and we thought we would find a place in the area to stay for the night. We drove through the Alps, the children were not so fond of driving through the tunnels in the mountains, but we had a good drive and enjoyed the beautiful snow-capped Alps. We arrived in Lugano and what a change, palm trees and just a whole different look! Almost looked like we were in Italy. We were not sure where to find a place to stay and anything that we did see looked expensive, so we decided to head Elnat, where we had been told was a nice Pension. SO that is what we did, we got lost a few times, so my dear husband ended up driving all night. He actually didn’t mind it, he rather enjoyed himself. The children were able to sleep and I slept some too. What a night and I’m glad to say we didn’t experience one like it again on our trip! Friends of ours had told us we should go to Lugano, so that is why we did. We did pass a Best Western Motel, it was shortly after 11pm and they were already closed for the day. Not like here where you can check in at anytime of night. I was disappointed about that, but figured this will happen only once.
Anyway, we arrived at the Pension at 6 in the morning and the lady there was so kind and gave us a room! I was exhausted so I went right to bed and Leif said he would keep the children entertained for a bit. He wanted me to get some rest. He let me rest a few hours and then came back to the Pension and I let him get some much needed sleep! The children and I took a walk. It was a cool day, but we stilled enjoyed the scenery and seeing the cows and sheep. We stayed there all day and got good nights rest and then we headed to Austria.

Proof we saw Lugano
The Alps
Beautiful Brown Swiss cow! We saw many of these. When I was in my later teens and also when I was first married I milked a Brown Swiss cow, so they have a special place in my heart. I would love to own one some day.
View from the Pension we stay at in Switzerland
I enjoyed the dotted hills in Switzerland with the Alps in the background.
A cute little place we drove by
More of Switzerland
My dear husband and our 3 children, this was in Rappuswill, we took a drive to see more of the area around the Pension we were staying at. Here there was a little park and a quaint little church. It was kind of a rainy cool day.
After we were leaving Switzerland, we drove through the tiny country of Leitchenstein
This was taken the day we left the Pension, this was a cute little rest area that we came upon near lunch time and it was the perfect place to eat lunch and stretch our legs. There was a park for the children and a small petting zoo. Also the sun was shining and it was warm!! Just perfect! The real first warm weather we had had since we arrived in Europe! I’m not sure which country this lovely rest area was in, because after we left Switzerland, we drove through Leitchenstein, then Austria for short time, into Germany and then back into Austria. That’s just the way the roads went. Our destination was Salzburg!
Our three little ones

So next week, I’ll share about the lovely few days we spent in Salzburg! Such a beautiful old city and we saw many things and walked, walked and walked some more. Our poor feet were so tired at the end of the day. Once again, I can’t say enough how well the children traveled. Oh we also drove through an area in Switzerland called Heidi’s Land. I would have loved to have been able to stop and see what there was to see. I really like the book Heidi as do my girls. Anyway, I’ll share more next week.

For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
Isaiah 54:10

This was an amazing trip you were blessed to take with your husband and children. I can't wait for next week's story and pictures. It feels like you are taking us with you on your journey down memory lane.
Thanks!
Linda

We went to Salzburg two years ago. We walked so much that the next morning we could hardly take a step… so painfull!
But we had to go back and make the best of our 24 hours free museums etc card!!
.-)http://comptines.over-blog.net

Archives

Blogroll

Blogs I Follow

Categories

This is a place for me to record our everyday happens and my thoughts as I go about being a wife to my dearest and a mother to our beautiful 9 children. I'm thankful to be a daughter of God and I desire to serve and bring Him glory in all I do and say.